Today’s Blogmarks

• Obama Carnival Float Racism in the Sky?
  On Monday, February 23, the Associated Press released a photo by Frank Augstein featuring a flying “Angel” President Barack Obama hovering over a carnival float in Duesseldorf, Germany.
• The Cal Ripken President
  As long as the nation is obsessed with historic milestones, is no one going to remark on what a great country it is where a mentally retarded woman can become speaker of the house?
• Is Obama’s ‘homeless’ woman really displaced?
  When President Obama went to Fort Myers, Fla., to emphasize the nation’s need for his economic stimulus plan, he promised to help a pleading homeless woman get back on her feet in a highly publicized exchange – but recent reports now reveal the woman may, in fact, be an owner of multiple properties.
• Oklahoma House passes sovereignty bill
  Oklahoma’s House of Representatives is the first legislative body to pass a state sovereignty resolution this year under the terms of the Tenth Amendment.
  More states need to do this or the 10th Amendment will be meaningless by the time Obama leaves office.
• Sen. Boxer tries to hurry children’s ‘rights’ treaty
  Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is urging a hurry-up timetable for adoption of a United Nations treaty she says provides for “basic human rights” for children but opponents argue would destroy parental rights to raise their children as they choose.
• McCain says Omnibus bill packed with earmarks and pork
  Despite all the talk during the campaign about cutting earmarks, Congress is still packing them into appropriations bills. The omnibus spending bill has “9,427 pork barrel items.”

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